Job-seekers have to sign up for interviews while they are on benefits.

If they don't they could lose their Jobseeker's Allowance.

They are even offered career coaching.

But Drury claims that he has interviewed people who are looking for an excuse to avoid losing their benefits.

He said: "The problem is that many of them, in my experience, don't actually want a job.

"They turn up in shellsuits, high-five you like the comedy character Ali G, or express themselves in mono-syllabic non-sequiturs so that even the most desperate employer wouldn't touch them with a barge pole."

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SHELLING-OUT: Claimants allegedly arrive in shellsuits

“I've heard them boasting about their lifestyle and saying they've every right to spend their money however they like”

Shaun Drury

Outraged Drury said that JobCentre officials simply "tick a box" to say the interviewees attended.

He said they don't even check if they went or how they performed.

The fed-up employer even reckons he's heard claimers bragging about using their benefits to buy new cars.

He said: "I've heard them boasting about their lifestyle and saying they've every right to spend their money however they like as they've saved up.

Sarah Ball, from Plymouth JobCentre, said they would "take peoples word for it" when they say they have been to an interview.

She said: "But it wouldn't be left that they would be continually failing at interviews."